In the last few years, there has been growing talk amongst development actors and agencies about a ‘rights-based approach’ to development. Yet what exactly this consists of remains unclear. For some, ...

The rights based approach to development is increasingly popular, but more rights-based money isn’t the answer to the world’s ills. Rights-based practitioners will have to do a better job of ...

Human rights have often been critiqued for their abstract universal claims, but human rights approaches are now beginning to lose their universalist baggage in the shift towards more pragmatic ...